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The state has allotted a 2,700sq m plot in the Calcutta Leather Complex in Bantala to set up the Tanning Training and Service Centre with help from Italy. S.S. Kumar, the chairman of the Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, said this on Thursday.

Tangra is synonymous with the leather industry in Kolkata but the West Bengal government’s drive to push the leather tanneries out of Tangra, comes as a double whammy for the tanners themselves who are already feeling the heat of the economic slowdown.